[Resolved] Text not included in an ARIA landmark

[William]

Aloha and Happy Friday,

I’m trying to wrap my head around an error my University accessibility checker is giving me for a recent GP/GB pro build.

“Text not included in an ARIA landmark”

Hard to tell if I’m doing something wrong (like hooking elements into the wrong places, or not adding an aria-label to my Site Footer element) … or if maybe it’s more of a theme-related issue outside my control?

Any advice on where I should start to remediate this issue?

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The site has otherwise sailed through the checker … and all dings, since fixed, were caused by me 🙂

Much thanks for any insight you can offer on ‘ARIA landmarks’

https://oralhistory.hawaii.edu/

_bill – hawaii

[David]

Hi there,

I ran a WAVE test against the site and it didn’t flag anything specific.
Does your accessibility checker provide any further details on that warning ?

[William]

Aloha David,

According to the checker (Siteimprove), the biggest culprit is the custom Site Footer, which is a:

Block Element, Element type >> Site Footer

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The other culprit is Titles falling outside the ‘Main’ landmark … I’m working on that one.

Thanks!

_Bill

[David]

Are you using GenerateBlocks Pro ?

[William]

Aloha David,

Sure am …

GP 3.1.3

GP Premium 2.1.2

GB Pro 1.2.0

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I found a Chrome extension that outlines the landmarks (http://matatk.agrip.org.uk/landmarks/)

The Nav/Header gets wrapped, and so does the content.

It’s the Site Footer element that seems to be un-wrapped by a landmark.

Thanks!

_bill

[David]

If you edit your Block Element Footer, and select the parent Container Block, in its sidebar settings you can select the Element Tag name:

https://docs.generateblocks.com/article/container-overview/#element-tag

What happens if you set that to Footer ?

[William]

It fixes the issue!! (I would never have found that) 🙂

Thanks a million David!!

You the best 🙂

_Bill

[William]

PS. topic resolved 🙂

[David]

Glad to be of help!

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